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B Write the short form of each using apostrophes.

1. I am—I’m 2. it is

3. do not 4. she is

5. should not 6. would not

7. were not 8. could not

9. has not 10. did not

11. have not 12. will not

13. he is 14. she has

C. Read the passage. Rewrite using appropriate punctuation marks and capital letters.

Aesops Fables is a collection of fables by aesop fables are stories which have animal

characters engaged in human-like situations each fable has a moral it is believed that
aesop was a greek slave and storyteller originally the fables were told from person to
person for entertainment purposes and also for conveying moral lessons the stories
were collected about three hundred years after the death of aesop lets read two of his
famous fables

1. the ants were drying grain that they collected in the summer a grasshopper was
passing by he was thin by starvation he begged the ants for a little food the ants
asked why did you not store up food during the summer

he said i did not have much time i passed the days in singing

the ants said angrily you were foolish enough to sing all the summer now you
must sleep hungry in winter

2. the mice held a meeting one day they wanted to come up with a solution to
outwit the cat they discussed many ideas but they came up with no solution
at last a young mouse got up and said i have a proposal to make you will all
agree that the cat uses stealth to catch us we are never able to know when she
approaches us so if we think of a way which will signal her approach we can
easily escape from her so i propose that we should tie a small bell by a ribbon

round the neck of the cat so whenever she is in the neighbourhood we would
always know

thats a wonderful idea said everyone and everyone cheered and rejoiced at that
moment an old mouse got up and said that is all very well but who will bell the
cat

the rejoiced stopped at one and the mice looked at one another and nobody spoke
then the old mouse said it is easy to propose a remedy for an impossible situation

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